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JUNE 22, 2017

They also suggest giving viewers “a few seconds before jumping into the action”, probably due to the randomly scattered data over the start of videos as people fumble to get their VR headset on and comfortable, and to familiarize themselves with their new virtual surroundings.

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MAY 17, 2017

Now you can watch immersive video from the biggest screen in your house. Google’s annual Google I/O developer is in full swing, with a few new VR related announcements. Sarah Ali, head of living room products, took the stage to announce that 360 video is making its way to your YouTube app in home devices.

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JUNE 23, 2017

To fit alongside the company’ Daydream mobile VR platform, Google is partnering with Lenovo, LG, and YI Technology to create a new class of 180 cameras. Called VR180, the point-and-shoot video cameras create stereoscopic 180 video that can be uploaded or livestreamed to YouTube, and viewed on VR headsets.

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AUGUST 8, 2017

Dive deeper into the lives of baseball’s biggest up-and-comers in the new “On the Verge” 360° series. The association has already partnered with Google to create the MLB At Bat VR experience for the Daydream platform earlier this year, as well as the MLB Homerun Derby VR game. Premium info or sign up for a plan. No problem!

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APRIL 24, 2017

Google today announced what the company is calling the “next-generation” of its ‘ Jump ‘ 3D 360 camera initiative. Update (4/24/17, 11:34AM PT): Google reached out to correct the price of the Yi Halo camera to $17,000, having initially stated the camera’s price as $18,000.

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JULY 18, 2017

The manager sits you down in some store room, wheels in a TV and makes you watch a training video that’s about as immersive as watching paint dry. Check out a preview of honeygrow’s 360 training video below. The post This Restaurant is Using Google Daydream to Train Employees appeared first on Road to VR.

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OCTOBER 20, 2016

This is the latest 360° video teaser for the new season of The Walking Dead. It’s probably easiest to view the 360° video on YouTube , but if you want to really immerse yourself in these final moments of life before you’re eaten alive, you can watch on your mobile device with Google Cardboard.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 9, 2018

Google today unveiled at CES a pair of point-and-shoot stereoscopic 180 cameras from Lenovo and Chinese camera manufacturer YI Technology. The cameras, respectively called the Lenovo Mirage and the Yi Horizon, are the first consumer cameras in Google’s growing VR180 camera platform. Delivering high quality 360 video is tough.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2017

When we first heard about Jorge Gutierrez’s Google Spotlight Stories project, Son of Jaguar , I don’t think any of us were expecting the colorful journey we were about to experience. The ‘Book of Life’ director’s VR debut makes its way to YouTube. So now everyone can cry in VR.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

.” Setting itself apart from other 360 video apps, the company says they’ll be “highly selective with a true programming voice.” ” Surreal, a cinematic VR company that’s produced more than 70 videos with over 35 million views, was acquired by STX in August 2016.

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MARCH 3, 2022

YouTube has a lot of 360-degree videos. While they haven’t organized these videos into their own content field (yet) you can search for “360 videos” or “immersive videos” and find quite a lot, usually with special icons on the thumbnail preview to let you know that they’re immersive.

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Road to VR

APRIL 19, 2017

At Sundance this year, I had a chance to catch up with a couple of representatives from Google to talk about what’s happening on the YouTube VR platform with 360 videos. Here are a number of 360 videos that were mentioned in this interview: The Unboxing Time Machine – NES 1985. Julia Hamilton Trost.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 28, 2016

The infamous comedy website CollegeHumor.com has begun releasing a series of comedic 360 videos on YouTube centered around pivotal moments in U.S. It’s an interesting team-up that could be just what Google needs to help the public ease into the exciting new world that is virtual reality. presidential history. You heard the man.

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Road to VR

MARCH 28, 2018

Lytro, the company that pivoted to enterprise-focused applications of its light-field technology after leaving its commercial business, is shutting down amidst a reported acquisition by Google. In 2015, the company pivoted and announced Immerge, their massive enterprise-focused light-field camera rig that captured volumetric video.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2016

As reported by Road to VR , Google recently confirmed that the latest iteration of the framework, WebVR 1.1, Speaking at the W3C Workshop on Web & Virtual Reality last month, Megan Lindsay, WebVR Product Manager at Google stated that a beta version should launch in December 2016 followed by a stable launch in January 2017. .

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FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Former EP at Vrse.Works, filmed 360° video for NY Times, Within, Facebook, Airbnb, Muse, Mastercard and more. I’m also a huge fan of all of the Google Jump cameras [such as the Yi Halo]. Filmed 360° video for Conan, Vogue, Jaunt, Discovery, TBS, USA, Lexus and more. Recommended 360° Cameras: Inst360 Pro?—?$3,500.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Google Daydream will provide organizations with VR training and equipment rentals. That’s why Google is launching a new program dubbed Daydream Impact , with the hope of helping organizations and creators utilize virtual reality to take their programs to the next level.

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APRIL 24, 2017

Google’s JUMP team is announcing a new, virtual reality camera today that is smaller and lighter than its predecessors. The new unit is being positioned as an affordable, portable, easy to use system that will allow creators to make high quality 360 videos more easily. The Halo combines 17 4k YI Action cameras into a ring.

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Road to VR

APRIL 5, 2017

The 360-degree version of Gorillaz’ music video for new track Saturnz Barz received over 3 million views in the first 48 hours, making it the single biggest 48 hour debut for a 360 music video in the (young) history of 360 videos on YouTube.

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Road to VR

MAY 3, 2018

Google is celebrating the life and artistry of French film pioneer Georges Méliès today with a charming VR short that commemorates his iconic silent films including the groundbreaking A Trip to the Moon (1902). The short was produced by Nexus Studios and co-directed by Fx Goby and Google Doodles’ Hélène Leroux.

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APRIL 30, 2018

SNL, Vanderpump Rules, SYFY WIRE and seven other shows get the 360-degree treatment in this multi-episode collaboration. Produced using Google’s high quality Jump VR capture platform, the 360-degree series will feature original content from networks such as E! “We

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MARCH 24, 2017

Sadly it isn’t 3D, though when viewed in high quality, the sharp edges of the CGI environments give a better sense of depth than most other non-3D 360 videos. With it’s thoughtful direction, this is one 360 video worth watching (though your taste in music is likely to be the overriding factor here).

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VRScout

MAY 16, 2016

Back in November Google unleashed VR content on the YouTube platform, bringing Cardboard features to YouTube’s Android app. Now all you iPhone users can finally rejoice, YouTube for iOS has finally been updated today with Google Cardboard support, letting you watch all video in Cardboard mode on your iPhone.

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OCTOBER 5, 2017

Discovery and Google today announced the launch of a new 38-episode VR video series called Discovery TRVLR, a product of both Discovery and Google’s internal VR teams. The first 6 episodes is slated to launch on Friday, November 3. Discovery TRVLR comes exclusively to YouTube and DiscoveryVR.com, and on the Discovery VR app.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Google Earth VR. presented Google Earth VR with the Century Award for VR in service of environmental enrichment. Google Earth VR turns much of the world into a digital playground that you can fly or teleport around in immersive 3D space. Longtime Hollywood environmental activist, Ed Begley Jr. Ghostbusters .

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JUNE 20, 2017

However, the most recent feature released by the popular video-sharing site, YouTube ‘Heatmaps,’ has got to be the most exciting new tools for VR video producers yet. Compatible with any 360-degree video containing at least 1,000 views, Heatmaps give a detailed insight into how viewers are observing your 360 videos.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2016

One major exception to this used to be 360 videos and images, but now that restriction is becoming a thing of the past. Last week, VLC revealed that it is now 360 enabled for both images and videos. VLC 360 was created through a partnership between VideoLan and the hardware company Giroptic.

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OCTOBER 3, 2016

The 360° video app also features content from Beckham, Star Wars and Warner Bros. UK’s largest pay-TV broadcaster, Sky, is launching their own mobile virtual reality app to showcase some of their best 360° video from Sky VR Studios and their partners.

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DECEMBER 11, 2016

The post Google Debuts VR Tour of New York’s Famous Festive Store Windows appeared first on VRScout. Don’t have a headset? No worries! You can use your computer, phone or tablet to click and drag your way through all the displays in 2D for a slightly less-immersive tour.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2017

It started with a preview of nominated VR experiences and ended with a lengthy awards ceremony where virtual reality and 360° video played a major role. A pioneering creative tool in VR; Google’s Tilt Brush was awarded for empowering artists from all realms to experiment, design and create all kinds of art in virtual reality.

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MAY 10, 2017

Through a partnership with Seattle-based startup Pixvana, Valve is also launching a VR video section aimed at bringing many of the benefits of distributing a 360-degree video on Facebook or Google’s YouTube to PC users consuming content through Steam. Export of configured 360 video directly to Steam.

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OCTOBER 28, 2017

A total of 17 lenses (eight stereo pairs aligned horizontal, and one centered vertical lens), and 6 internal microphones allows for capturing 3D 360 video and spatial audio. One-step stitching and control software, provided by Samsung, allows for 3D 360 livestreaming up to a claimed 4,096 × 2,048 at 30 FPS per eye.

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JULY 14, 2017

Anonymous Content ( 360 video on YouTube ). Stranger Things VR Experience – Netflix – Netflix and CBS Digital ( 360 video on YouTube ). Outstanding Original Interactive Program.

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MAY 8, 2018

360° video emerged as a unique medium that allows audiences to take control and discover more compared to standard video or still imagery Click To Tweet. 360° video has quickly emerged as a unique medium that allows audiences to take control, look around and discover more when compared to standard video or still imagery.

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APRIL 19, 2022

It was a video player for virtual reality headsets, able to play both 2D videos, 360 videos, and 360 VR videos which was quite popular back in the Gear VR days. In fact, we believe we were among the first to make a truly usable VR video player. Who else remembers Moon VR Player?

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MAY 18, 2017

Google has revealed a new ‘surface light-field’ rendering technology that it’s calling ‘Seurat’ (after the famous Pointillism painter). This also means that developers can composite traditional real-time assets into the scene to create interactive gameplay within these high fidelity environments.

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DECEMBER 28, 2016

2016 has been a landmark year for VR and 360° video. In addition to the ever-increasing landscape of 360° camera options available for the consumer and professional alike, major social media outlets such as Facebook, YouTube, and WordPress have introduced 360° video hosting. Reeps One – Does Not Exist.

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